Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.